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CP NewsAlert: Alberta tightens COVID restrictions; closes restaurants, casinos, gyms
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, his province relentlessly pounded by thousands of new COVID-19 cases, has reintroduced strict economic lockdown rules and banned all outdoor social gatherings....
Dec 08, 2020
AP source: NHL players balk at changing CBA, league moves on
NHL players have balked at changing the collective bargaining agreement and the league is preparing to open the season Jan. 13 after starting training camp on New Year's Day, a person with knowledge o...
Dec 08, 2020
Business closures, mask mandate among Alberta's new COVID-19 restrictions
The Alberta government has announced a series of tough new measures aimed at curbing the steep rise in COVID-19 cases in the province. Chief among the measures are a mandatory province-wide mask weari...
Dec 08, 2020
AP sources: Biden picks Rep. Marcia Fudge as housing chief
WASHINGTON - President-elect Joe Biden has selected Ohio Rep. Marcia Fudge as his housing and urban development secretary, according to three people familiar with the decision. Fudge was first elected...
Dec 08, 2020
Saga over senator who posted anti-Indigenous letters continues in Senate
OTTAWA - Lynn Beyak, the senator who posted derogatory letters about Indigenous people on her website, once again faces the prospect of expulsion from the Senate. The Senate's ethics committee recomme...
Dec 08, 2020
Things remain quiet on Blue Jays' front but that could change at any time
A quick signing at the start of baseball's free-agency period has been followed by a month-long period of relative inactivity for the Toronto Blue Jays. Baseball's ongoing virtual winter meetings coul...
Dec 08, 2020
'First Cow,' 'Nomadland' top AP's best films of 2020
Good movies kept coming in 2020, even when everything else stopped. In a year that often felt like its own kind of cataclysmic Hollywood production, the movies - even if relegated to smaller screens -...
Dec 08, 2020
High court rejects GOP bid to halt Biden's Pennsylvania win
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected Republicans' last-gasp bid to reverse Pennsylvania's certification of President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the electoral battleground. The court wi...
Dec 08, 2020
Raptors able to practise despite COVID-19 cases
His symptoms of COVID-19 were bad. His worry over his wife and kids was significantly worse. New Toronto Raptors forward Aron Baynes was diagnosed with COVID-19 last summer, and suffered symptoms that...
Dec 08, 2020
County assisting with new ice rinks at Leslieville and Condor schools
Clearwater County council has agreed to help out Wild Rose School Division with ice rinks at the new school sites in Leslieville and Condor.Historically, the school division has covered the costs of l...
Dec 08, 2020